students

6:50. Wake up. Hit snooze. Get up. 7:20. Out the door to catch the school bus, day 44 of the school year. 7:45. Arrive to school; turn on the computers, pull the chairs down from the tables. ~~~~~ 8:00-8:30. Teacher

Waiting anxiously for my friend Lianna* to come over the other evening, I decided to put on the water for varenniki dumplings. She and several friends showed up a few minutes later, and we sat down at the kitchen table

With eight hours to kill on layover in Frankfurt, I sat down before sunrise with an overpriced McDonalds coffee, and pulled out my Russian primer to study a bit. I’d read for maybe twenty minutes, glancing over and smiling at